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MATTERS IN MICHIGAN. The Manistee Democrat is now a daily paper. Lake county hackleberries are get ting ripe. Mt. Pleasant will use $1000 to 6% up its public park. There were 282 deaths in Detroit dur. ing the month of June. The irrepressible candidate is a regular feature of the farmers' pienie. Louis Hubbell, a Grand Blane farm. er, was killed by the care at Flint July 5. The wild strawberry crop in Northern Michigan is exceptionally fine this sea800. Greenville claims to have better streets than any town in Montealm county. Oceana county strawberries, though late in ripening, rua twenty-one to the quart. Birds-eye maple is so plenty in Osceo is la county that a veneer factory wanted. Governor Hoard, of Wisconsin, is taking a brief pleasure trip in the Upper Penhaula. William J. Whitbeck and wife, of Hudaon. have just celebrated their gulden wedding. The Commercial Electric Company, of Detroit, has secured the contract for lighting Kalamazoo. A. large balloon passed over Charlotte the day after the Fourth There seemed to be no one in it. A Kalamazoo man, who is too bash ful allow 11:8 name to be used, will give the city a $50,000 library if some one e.se will donate the site. Tomato and nielou vines in the vicinity of Holland coquettiably toyed with Jack Frisatearly Saturday morning and were slightly nipped in consequence. A case of lump-jaw was recently discovered near Flushing. President Hinds, of the State Live Stock Sanitary Commission, ordered the animal killed. The Mt. Pleasant Electric Light Company have obtained an extension of rixty days time in which to complete their plant, and are now basy in putting up poles. The Hartman-Barnes resort near Ferrysburg has been named "Spring Lake Park." It has been platted and contains 100 lots, a free park and retreation grounds. John McIthenney is in jail at St. I air charged with committing an outage upon the person of an 8-year-old rl. He has served a three-years sen tence on similar charge. The Pentwater Furniture Company bas sold over $70,000 worth of goods during the half year ending June 30. Almost half as much as a single order filled by Nelson, Matter & Co., of this city. The next big celebration in this State will be held in Battle Creek on Labor All Day, September 1, Wednesday. the labor organizations in the State will be present and participate in the exer cises. The Charlevoix Savings Bank suspended payment July 3. LieutenantGovernor Buttars was one of the principal stockholders, as well as some of the most prominent citizens of that place. Many farmers will commence cutting their wheat tomorrow and by the last of the week everybody will be cutting The crop in this section of Michigan will be a splendid one, both as to yield and quality. The most melancholy spectacle in De troit on July 4 was presented by two ringboned, spavined, weary-of-life street car horses, over whose heads waved two bright American flags in honor of the day. Detroit Free Press. One of the saddest Fourth of July accidents occurred near Port Huron. A team ran away, seriously injuring Henry Henshaw. his wife and one boy, beside killing one daughter and a son instantly. Mrs. Henshaw's injuries are a fatal, and the surviving boy lost hand. Francis M. Blair, a well-known far mer of Cass county, suicided at the Kalamazoo Asylum on Thursday by hanging himself with a rope made of a twisted sheet. He had been at the asylum about a month and had previously attempted his life with an axe. Heleaves a wife and daughter. The Hotel Keepers' Association of Michigan will hold its tenth annual meeting in the parlors of the Arlington at Petoskey, on Thursday, July 10. Ex. tensive arrangements have been perfected in connection with the event and an exceed engly pleasant and profitable time is confidently expected. John McGowan, the tramp arrested at Big Rapids some weeks nce charge d with assaulting a 3-year-old girl, and who was at the time unmereifull ponaded by theonraged father, pleaded guilty to a lesser crime than that charged. and last week Judge Palmer sentenced him to Ioma for one year and eight months AL Gognac Lake, on Friday, a dock give way, precipitating about twenty persons into the water. A baby was crushed in the crowd under the water. Three ladies were held under the water by the strug ling crowd and were saved great utiliculty. Queold lady was baily injured. But for the promp work of the steatuer bands several per sons would have drowned The census will store that the popu lation in the Upper Peninsula has doubled since 1880. The population of Ishpeming double since 1334. The are vary but from the returns of populatic ain the nief cities: Islivening 12,000; Menominee, 10,000 Marjnette, 8,600 Estanaba, 8,000 Ne granes, 7,000; Iron Mountain 7,000. Likes the Country C.W. Basier, late of the Wester Union, 16 now in Kings county, Wash a ingto State He says, in a letter to friend. that he is mach taken up with the country, and is going to settle there. He confident that that the place for a young man to make money says in value rapiily and that 16 is a greas country yet